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Author:

International Congress of Plant Pathology (9th : 2008 : Turin, Italy)

Title:

The role of plant pathology in food safety and food security / R.N. Strange, Maria Lodovica Gullino, editors.

Publisher:

Springer,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

viii, 155 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Plant diseases--Congresses.
Plant-pathogen relationships--Congresses.
Food--Safety measures--Congresses.
Food security--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Strange, Richard N.
Gullino, M. Lodovica (Maria Lodovica)

Notes:

Collection of papers given at the 9th International Congress for Plant Pathology held in Turin in 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Plant diseases and the world's dependence on rice / R.S. Zeigler, S. Savary -- Development of appropriate strategies to control cassava diseases in Ghana / E. Moses -- Biosecurity in the movement of commodities as a component of global food security / N.A. van der Graaff, W. Khoury -- ISPP and the challenge of food security / Peter Scott, Richard Strange -- Globalisation and the threat to biosecurity / Harry C. Evans, James M. Waller -- Genetic modification (GM) as a new tool in the resistance toolbox / Thomas Hohn, Gabriele Schachermayr -- The role of plant pathology and biotechnology in food security in Africa / James M. Onsando, Florence Wambugu -- The secondary metabolite toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and its role in virulence of the blackleg fungus / Barbara J. Howlett ... [et al.] -- Biological and chemical complexity of Fusarium proliferatum / Robert H. Proctor, Anne E. Desjardins, Antonio Moretti -- Bioterrorism : a threat to plant biosecurity? / J.P. Stack, F. Suffert, M.L. Gullino -- The revised international plant protection convention : a new context for plant quarantine / William Roberts -- Pest risk analysis as applied to plant pathogens / Fran©ʹoise Petter, Sarah Brunel, Muriel Suffert.

Series:

Plant pathology in the 21st century ; 3
International Congress of Plant Pathology. Plant pathology in the 21st century 3.

ISBN:

1402089317
9781402089312

OCLC:

(OCoLC)310401164

LCCN:

2009929634

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)